Recent Prize Winners

Prize winners for 2024

Best doctoral dissertation

Mathew Frith - American Protectionist Thought: The Economic Philosophy and Theory of the 19th Century American Protectionists

Supervisors: Jerry Courvisanos, Alex Millmow, and Jeremy Smith, Federation University Australia

 

2022

Best doctoral dissertation

Riko Stevens - The Theory of Speculation in the Marshallian Tradition: Marshall, Pigou, Lavington, and Keynes on the Microeconomics of Speculation

Supervisor: Michael McLure, University of Western Australia

 

2017

Winner of P. D. Groenewegen Prize

Christian Gehrke (2015) - 'Georg von Charasoff: a neglected contributor to the Classical-Marxian Tradition'

Best doctoral dissertation

Karen Knight - A. C. Pigou and the Marshallian 'thought' style (UWA 2017)

Best Masters thesis

Riko Stevens - The theory of speculation in the history of economic thought: the contributions of Adam Smith. J.S.Mill and Alfred Marshall revisited (University of Auckland, 2016)

 

2015

There was, according to the preferential voting of members of the editorial board, two joint winners for that year.

The winners were:

Susan Howson ‘The Uses of Biography and the History of Economics’;

Stephen Medema ‘The Coase theorem Downunder: Revisiting the Economic Record Controversy’  

 

2013

Best doctoral dissertation

Two prizes were awarded in 2013. The winners were:

Edward Mariyani Squire (UWS) - Opacity and Rhetoric
Supervisors: Dick Bryan and Evan Jones, University of Sydney;

Arnaldo Barone (Victoria University) - Veblen and the public support of the Arts
Supervisor: John King. La Trobe University


For the best honours thesis

Philip Metaxas (UWA) - Australia’s contribution to international trade theory; the dependent economy model

Supervisor: Jurg Weber, University of Western Australia


Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize

Alex Millmow for his article ‘Colin Clark and Australia’ in HER No 56

 

2011

Best dissertation

Neil Hart - Marshall’s Equilibrium and Evolution: Then and Now

Supervisor: Peter Kriesler, University of New South Wales


Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize

Gregory C.G. Moore, ‘Placing Donald Winch in Context: An Essay on Wealth and Life’ published in the History of Economics Review, No. 52, 2010.

 

2009

Best doctoral dissertation

Kerrie Louise Mitchener - Preference and Utility in Economic Theory and the History of Economic Thought.


Supervisor: Associate Professor Ghanshyam Mehta (now retired)


Best master’s thesis

Lisa Meehan, ‘Heisenbergian uncertainty in Economics: an Ontological perspective’.


Supervisor: Tony Andres, University of Auckland


Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize

John E. King ‘Not the devils decade: Nicholas Kaldor in the 1930s” History of Economics Review No.46

 

2007

No prize awarded for postgraduate work

Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize

M.V. White ‘Cultural circles of the Empire: Bibliographical notes on W.S. Jevons’s Antipodean interlude, 1854-1859’, History of Economics Review. No. 43

 

2005

Best doctoral dissertation

Alex Millmow - The Power of Economic Ideas: the origins of macroeconomic management in interwar Australia


Supervisor: Selwyn Cornish, Australian National University


Winner of the P. D. Groenewegen prize

‘The Power of Economic Ideas: Australian economists in the Thirties’ (published in the History of Economics Review No. 37, 2003.